1874 J.B. Stephens ‘The Headless Trooper’ Poems 104: The ’possums all within a mile / Went home as sick as dogs.at …a dog (adj.) under sick as…, adj.
1874 J.B. Stephens ‘My Chinee Cook’ Poems 3: Oh his dinners! they were fit for any duke! / Oh delectable Mongolian! Oh celestial Chinee cook!at Chinee, adj.
1874 J.B. Stephens ‘To a Black Gin’ Poems 18: The coarseness of thy tresses is distressing, / With grease and raddle firmly coalescing, / I cannot laud thy system of ‘top-dressing.’.at top dressing (n.) under top, adj.
1874 J.B. Stephens ‘The Headless Trooper’ Poems 103: Now pick a thickish waddy up / And plug my wound behind.at waddy, n.